The Sum of the People : How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
154161934X
ISBN-13
9781541619340
Publisher
Basic Books
Imprint
Basic Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 30th, 2020
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
572 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 24.40 x 3.30 cms
Product Classification:
History: specific events & topicsPopulation & demographyPolitical science & theory
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The fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census, revealing why the true boundaries of any nation today aren't lines on a map but columns in a census tabulation
This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance.
In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a tradition of counting people that goes back at least three millennia and now spans the globe.
In The Sum of the People, data scientist Andrew Whitby traces the remarkable history of the census, from ancient China and the Roman Empire, through revolutionary America and Nazi-occupied Europe, to the steps of the Supreme Court. Marvels of democracy, instruments of exclusion, and, at worst, tools of tyranny and genocide, censuses have always profoundly shaped the societies we''ve built. Today, as we struggle to resist the creep of mass surveillance, the traditional census -- direct and transparent -- may offer the seeds of an alternative.
In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a tradition of counting people that goes back at least three millennia and now spans the globe.
In The Sum of the People, data scientist Andrew Whitby traces the remarkable history of the census, from ancient China and the Roman Empire, through revolutionary America and Nazi-occupied Europe, to the steps of the Supreme Court. Marvels of democracy, instruments of exclusion, and, at worst, tools of tyranny and genocide, censuses have always profoundly shaped the societies we''ve built. Today, as we struggle to resist the creep of mass surveillance, the traditional census -- direct and transparent -- may offer the seeds of an alternative.
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